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LibriVox recording of News From Nowhere by William Morris. Read by Elizabeth Klett.
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism; the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communistic society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism; the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communistic society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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February 13, 2012
Subject: News From Nowhere
Subject: News From Nowhere
The political roots of the Arts and Crafts movement are clearly shown in Morris' utopian vision of a society that has left commercialism and private property behind and in which art is embodied in craftsmanship.
Although I have always admired Morris' design work, I had found his stylised romances a bit of a slog. So I was happily suprised to find that NFN (1890) is lively and well executed. It's a far easier read than Bellamy's famous 1887 yawner "Looking Backward."
As usual, Elizabeth Klett does an outstanding job of interpreting the written word with perfect enunciation and 99% accuracy in pronouncing those arcane English place names. Many thanks for your work, Gloriana. It kept me sane last whilst burning the remains of many dinosaurs (i.e., driving) the damned M1 between here and Luton last week.
TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)
Although I have always admired Morris' design work, I had found his stylised romances a bit of a slog. So I was happily suprised to find that NFN (1890) is lively and well executed. It's a far easier read than Bellamy's famous 1887 yawner "Looking Backward."
As usual, Elizabeth Klett does an outstanding job of interpreting the written word with perfect enunciation and 99% accuracy in pronouncing those arcane English place names. Many thanks for your work, Gloriana. It kept me sane last whilst burning the remains of many dinosaurs (i.e., driving) the damned M1 between here and Luton last week.
TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)
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